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the telephone; but I suggested you should write?
You did, but not in the manner I considered courteous.
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I am not here to argue it there must have been a little more said?
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I don't see how you are going to fill those two or three minutes
with only those remarks.
I cannot tell definitely how much time it took.
What I am suggesting is that you have not recorded the whole
conversation?
Not the whole, but the gist.
Chairman.
Thank you, Mrs. Campbell, that is all.
I think while we are on this subject it might be con-
venient if I hand you a copy of this letter from Mr. W.J. Keswick,
Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, which he addressed to
Mr. J.J. Paterson regarding the/vessel, the American President
Liner "President Monroe". (Copy handdd to Mr. Forrest).
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Before you say anything about that letter and its contents I would
add that you will recall no doubt the constant burden of the
telegrams, the very mumerous telegrams, which passed between the
Government here, the British Ambassador in Chungking, the British
Embassy at Shanghai and the Foreign Office, and I think you will
agree the one thing that was stressed throughout was the need for
sympathetic treatment of Chinese?
Mr. Forrest: Yes.
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We have here a letter from a very senior and responsible gentleman
and it is only right I should recall the contents of that letter to
you and ask you to give such explanation as you desire about that.
It relates to what happened inside the lounge on the same occasion
as ajor Manners has deposed to. (Reads): -
"Hong Kong,21st February, 1941
"Dear Paterson, As you are Executive Council I feel I ought to
report to you the unfortunate impression the Passport Authorities
created on the arrival of S.S. "President Monroe" on which I came
down from Shanghai on 9th Feb.